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In case you haven’t noticed, the phrase “Presbyterian seminarian” has done a lot of heavy lifting for Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico.

In much the way “devout Catholic” did so much work for Joe Biden — a man whose private faith may have indeed been deep, but whose antipathy toward public policy that favored the faithful didn’t seem to have much in common with the Bible or the Vatican — the fact that he attended Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary is supposed to make him the Christian candidate, somehow.

The reason for Talarico drawing attention to himself this way is even more evident when you consider why he’s doing it: His opponent, Ken Paxton, has been assailed for public and personal lapses by both the left and establishment right during his time as Texas’ attorney general.

How much of this is true and how much of this is mudslinging is your estimation alone, but the fact remains that Paxton’s wife filed for divorce “on biblical grounds” last July.

However, the idea of imagining Talarico as a retail politician looking for values voters to buy into is, or should have been, farcical on a number of levels. In this vein, I present to you our “Presbyterian seminarian” delivering a Texas House invocation in 2021, recently unearthed on Reddit by the pundit who goes by DataRepublican on X.

It’s difficult to categorize all the ways this short prayer is blasphemous, but see if you can circle them as we go along:

Let us pray. Holy mystery, you have so many names: The Torah calls you ‘Creator,’ the Quran calls you “peace,” the Gita calls you “destroyer,” the dharma calls you “truth” and the first epistle of John calls You perhaps the most beautiful name of all: “Love.” Based on the lies and inaccuracies in his prayer, do you think Talarico is truly following Jesus? Yes No A login link has been sent to . Please check your inbox and click the link to log in and vote. Completing this........

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